i currently am an unhappy and unsatisfied owner of an 04 mazda 3. at first it was fun...but now i feel like a little bitch driving that car around. and the g35 coupe looks soo pimp to me right now. i just have to get rid of this car. i owe about $17000 (ouch i know, and kbb lists it for 15,000) im having trouble finding someone to take over my payments. so can anyone help me figure out a trade in plan? few solid q's.....

1. how much you think their gonna give me for it once i fix being upside down on payments.

2. will the left over amount transfer to the new car total? (that would suck)

3. do you think i should just stick to gettin someone to take over payments, because getting a good deal with my certain predicament is pretty much impossible

4. should i just keep dreaming?

 

Not to burst your bubble, but keep dreaming. Their definatley gonna add what you owe on top of the price of the G. The only way I think its possible is for someone to take over your payments. 37000 + 17000 = too much for a G

 

He is not going to lose $17,000. What you should do is sell your mazda personally to get the most money. Clean it up real nice and try to sell it for $17k and see if anyone bites. If you can get good money for it, then find a good used G35 to save money.

 

Negotiate your deal for a new coupe. Then once that's done, tell them about your trade in and see if they'll give you what you need. They are really trying to move cars right now and they might surprise you. It worked for me!

 

Good Luck

 

KBB doesn't give you the wholesale price. I am no dealer but, most likely you'll get 12k for you Mazda maybe little more..In another words you have negative equity, In order to get out of your Mazda & jump on G first & most you need to come up with at 6k for down payments. Not to mention everything depends on you fico score as longs as you're in 650 + becon you should be ok. To make the long story short my advice is sell your mazda first privetly & then get the G. Better yet take your Mazda to carmax and get it appraised. Don't make the mistake of buring your negetive equity in the new car, it will increase your payments..not worth it.

 

a brand new mazda 3 is about 16K, i know cause my gf was going to buy one two months back...the best thing you could do in my opinion is negotiate a deal for the G and negotiate the most you can get from the dealer and add it up to the G, make sure the Mazda is looking and working really good...dont give the dealer no reason to take more of the selling price than necessary...if you can just pay the negative equity out of pocket, or like JAWJAW said sell it personally but you are risking having it around for awhile waiting for someone to bite...good luck

 

thats not necessarily true about him not being able to get what KBB said. I just sold my sisters VW and I got exactly KBB for it. last year i sold my old car and got 500 over KBB.

 

when i bought my g, infiniti told me they dont go by KBB.. or the other one that everyone uses. (i cant think of the name right now). They went by their own private company which i never heard of, and it was about 2500 less then KBB

 

thanks guys...i hate my car. well maybe its a sign because i can just wait till the NEW coupes come out next spring and maybe by that time ill have gotten rid of it by then. i shouldve leased the sucker....

 

From my experience? on more than few occasions KBB's trade-in value for "good" condition comes pretty close to what dealer were offering for my trade's, you can shop/ask around few different dealerships and see what they are offer you for your trades but the difference are usually around 500 dollars, try to sell your car privatly and you could/should get 1.5~2k more.

By the way if you did leased? you wont be in any better shape than pruchase, be cause either you pay too much (MSRP or more)for that car or your interest rate was sky high but I think MSRP was going price at time for that car tho, I was looking at it too, it has enormous amount of head room and good trunk space, and very good exterior styling too.